... for a .52 credit. Comments: A continuation of my "small account" thread, utilizing short put verticals to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market. (See Post Below). Sold the 20, bought the 17 to receive a credit >10% of the width of the spread, immediately doing a "good until cancelled" order to take profit at 50% max. Trade Metrics: Max...
... for a .54 credit. Comments: While I'm waiting on various setups I've got hanging out there, I figured I'd start up a thread of sorts for a small account that is on the other end of the account-size spectrum from my IRA/retirement account posts: a small account I opened for a future grandkid or grandkids. There isn't much in it at the moment (around $2000),...
... for a .33 debit. Comments: Decided to close this kind of at the last minute ... . With 21 days to go, there wasn't much a ton of juice left to squeeze out of it. Collected a total of 6.55 in credits with rolls and such (See Post Below). Closing here results in 6.22 ($622) of realized gains. Was hoping for some increased implied volatility and a little...
... for a 4.00 credit. Comments: Doing two spreads this week, one in the July 23rd, one in the July 30th expiry. Selling the 16 delta strike and buying the put 50 strikes out from there to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market. 8.7% ROC at max; 64.8% annualized. 4.4% ROC at 50% max; 32.4% annualized to 50% max.
... for a 3.60 credit. Comments: Selling the 16 delta strike and buying the put 50 strikes out from there to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market with more room to be wrong than buying at-the-money. 7.8% ROC at max; 67.8% annualized at max. 3.9% ROC at 50% max; 33.9% annualized. Generally, take profit at 50%; take loss at 2 x credit received.
... for a 2.15 credit. Comments: You know the drill ... . 50% max roll. With the October 15th 307 at >50% max, rolling it up intraexpiry to the strike paying at least 1% of the value of the strike in credit. Total credits collected now 5.82 (See Post Below) + 2.15 = 7.97 versus a current value for the 355 of 3.66, so I've realized gains of 7.97 - 3.66 = 4.31...
... for a 2.31 credit. Comments: Part of a longer-dated premium selling strategy ... . With the 324 at >50% max, rolling up to the strike paying at least 1% of the value of the strike. I've collected 6.04 (See Post Below) + 2.31 so far or 8.35 versus the September 17th 372's value of 3.67, so I've realized gains of 8.35 - 3.67 or 4.68 or $468 so far.
... for a .33 debit. Comments: Profit-taking here on a contract that I did a "window dressing" roll on. (See Post Below). Total of 3.05 collected; out for .33 here; 2.72 ($272) profit with 21 days to go. As with my IWM, I considered rolling, but implied volatility is at the very low end of its 52-week range and 30-day has dropped sub-20.
... for a .37 debit. Comments: In for 2.38 (See Post Below), out for .37 here, 2.01 ($201) gross profit with 21 days to go. I considered rolling, but rank/implied is at 1.6/23.5%. The 1.6 means the implied volatility is at the very low end of its 52-week range, and the 23.5% 30-day isn't great, so will wait for weakness and an accompanying volatility pop to...
... for a .23/contract credit. Comments: Put on when the expiry-specific implied was at 56% (See Post Below), it's crushed in here to 38.8%, so I got movement away from the short put strike + volatility crush. No sense in hanging out another 36 days for the remainder of the extrinsic. In for 1.74; out for .23; 1.51 ($151) profit/contract.
... for a .70 debit. Comments: In for 1.41 (See Post Below), out for .70 today (50% max) with 37 days to go, probably due in no small part to the volatility crush. 30-day was at 341% when I put it on; it's now at 276%. I'll take 6.0% ROC for five days' "work" any day.
... for a .31 debit. Comments: Collected a total of 3.79, (See Post Below). 3.79 - .31 = 3.48 ($348) profit. Closed today rather than rolling, since IWM implied has come in quite a bit; it's currently 22.4% and at the very bottom of its 52-week range. I also still have contracts in the July 2nd weekly, the July 16th monthly, and the July 23rd weekly, so not...
... for .14/per contract. Comments: In for .48 (See Post Below), out for .14. .34 ($34)/contract profit with 39 days to go. No sense in hanging out another 39 days for the remaining .14. Implied is still pretty decent here with 30-day at 44.8%, so may re-up in a bit when an August monthly becomes available, assuming the volatility is still there.
... for a 2.50 debit. Comments: In for 5.10 (See Post Below), out here for 2.50; 2.60 ($260) profit with 21 days to go. 5.2% ROC.
... for a 1.40 ($140) credit. Comments: Okay, okay, okay ... . I'll bite. With 30-day implied volatility at a whopping 341%, taking a really conservative approach to this by selling the 5 delta strike and buying the 0 (it's probably greater than 0, but they've rounded to the nearest delta). By buying the cheap put (it costs .08 here), I define my risk,...
... for a .33 debit. Comments: With 26 days to go, taking profit here at 86% max. In for 2.32 (See Post Below), out for .33 here; 1.99 ($199) profit.
... for a 1.75 credit. Comments: In this particular case, I don't want to extend duration (since it's already ridiculously long-dated as it is), so am just rolling up intraexpiry for a credit at around 50% max. Total credits collected of 3.33 (See Post Below) + 1.75 = 5.08 versus a short put value of 3.03 here, so I've realized a gain of 2.05 ($205) so far.
... short put for a 1.94 credit. Comments: At 50% max, rolling month to month to the strike paying at least 1% of the strike in credit (i.e., the 358 is paying 3.60, which is just a smidge over 1%). Total credits collected of 7.07 (See Post Below) plus 1.94 = 9.01 versus a current short put value of 3.60 = a realized gain of 5.41 ($541) so far.